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High cost cancer medications encourage a ‘treat them into the grave’ approach

By Michael Woodhead

28 Nov 2018

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Oncologists say they are encouraged to overprescribe high cost medicines at the end of life by a PBS system that makes it easier to offer false hope than have a difficult conversation with patients about stopping futile treatment. Healthcare ethics researchers who interviewed 16 Australian oncologists and haematologists found a common theme was that drug ...

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